WebRTC-based peer assisted framework for HTTP live streaming

HTTP based adaptive streaming technologies have become the primary vehicle for delivering live video content on the Internet. The WebRTC stack has opened up the possibility of creating a purely browser based and plugin free mechanism of utilizing peer to peer upload bandwidth to assist HTTP based streaming systems and hence make them easier to scale. Accordingly, we have implemented a WebRTC-based peer assisted framework for HTTP live streaming. We have further experimentally evaluated its performance with varying peer density. Our experimental results reveals that our framework reduces more than three fourth of the server load by serving the segment request from the neighbouring peers.